As usual for us, there are two round-robin qualifying sections feeding into a six-man round-robin final. The two qualifying sections each yield qualifying spots for the top three scores. Turnout seems to be light this year--so far there are only seven players in each section, though this may change in the next week. Fortunately, with an odd number in each section, a late joiner could be accommodated relatively easily at this point by just putting the newcomer in the 'Bye' slot on the crosstable. I understand there are a couple of other people who intend to play but who couldn't be present for the first round last week for various reasons. One of those people, interestingly, is not defending club champion Patrick Chi! Probably school and whatever other activities he has going are making too many demands on his time at the moment, so it sounds like he won't be with us for this year's engagement.
Let's take a look at the field as it exists officially right now. I don't really have time to make nice tables just now, so here's a bare list of players and current USCF ratings. (I'll have you know, by the way, that while I'm typing this up, I'm having a nice glass of a red wine from the Berkshires, which will have no effect whatsoever upon the accuracy of this post. It will also not cause me to try to come up with silly nicknames for the players... at least not yet.) Bill Townsend prepared his usual nice color-coded crosstables for each section, which I'll attempt to mimic here, although the specific shade of orange that Bill used for the Section A paper doesn't seem to be available to me, which is a pity, because it's really a very nice shade of orange. Oh, well, close enough.
Section A
- Philip Sells 2010
- Carlos Varela 1751
- Dilip Aaron 1738
- Cory Northrup 1576
- Zachary Calderon (aka 'Calderon fils') 1517
- Jeff Capitummino 1366
- Michael Stanley 1030
Section B
- John Phillips 1924
- Alan LeCours 1911
- Richard C. Chu 1642
- Matt Clough 1577
- Herman Calderon (aka 'Calderon pere') 1493
- David Connors 1487
- Akhil Kamma UNR
Results of Thursday, Oct 6, round 1:
Section A
Northrup 0-1 Sells
Aaron 0-1 Varela
Stanley 0-1 Calderon, Z.
Capitummino: bye
Section B
Phillips 1-0 Chu
Clough 0-1 LeCours
Connors 0-1 Kamma
Calderon, H.: bye
***
If anyone is looking for a bit of tournament activity, the Western New England Open is next weekend, Oct. 15-16, in North Adams. 5-round Swiss, G/120 with prizes and probably a good shot at playing some of the usual suspects from Connecticut. That is, if you're not already committed to the Deepak Aaron simul at RPI that Saturday. (I only found out about this tournament on Friday myself.)
If you're a member of either the Albany Area Chess Club or the Schenectady Chess Club, don't forget the Albany vs. Schenectady match on Thursday the 13th!
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